{"id":1011807,"date":"2015-10-06T03:50:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T10:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/shortcodes-confusing\/"},"modified":"2015-10-21T07:05:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T14:05:03","slug":"shortcodes-confusing","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/shortcodes-confusing\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortcodes Confusing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not one for complaining, but I am seriously disappointed with this plugin. All the promotional material paints a picture of ease and effortlessness, but its quite the opposite.  I found the knowledge based shortcodes not very friendly to non coders and developers and having paid so much money for this product, I expected a more polished finished and not the scenario I find myself in, where I cannot seem to just show the details of a single event using the shortcodes.<\/p>\n<p>Why isn&#8217;t there just a simple list that shows this shortcode will display the full event details page.  I&#8217;m lost and don&#8217;t find the forum helpful as it feels everyone is some sort of developer.<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t every event you create, just have a simple shortcode in wordpress at the top of the page that says &#8220;this is your shortcode&#8221; for this event page.<\/p>\n<p>All I want to do is show the full event page details in one simple bloody shortcode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1011807","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shortcodes Confusing -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/shortcodes-confusing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shortcodes Confusing -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m not one for complaining, but I am seriously disappointed with this plugin. 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